[GTALUG] NTP's Fate Hinges On 'Father Time' - InformationWeek

[David Thornton]

This is an important topic.

"Keeping time in sync" is a cornerstone to technology from gps to ssl, from
hft to big data.

I was sent back to school recently when I saw "chrony" and not ntp on my
centos 7 box. I'm not sold yet. And i've not finished reading the horrible
documentation for it.

" The NTP time stamp is part of how equities firms show that trades took
place when they say they did" - False. Ntp is not precise enough.

My finance client's use ptp not ntp.

David

On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 4:25 PM, Stewart C. Russell <scruss at gmail.com>
wrote:

>    A slightly disheartening tale of NTP's possible future:
> <http://www.informationweek.com/it-life/ntps-fate-hinges-on-father-time/d/d-id/1319432>
> <http://www.informationweek.com/it-life/ntps-fate-hinges-on-father-time/d/d-id/1319432>
> .
> (via MetaFilter, which has a few decent comments on the matter:
> <https://www.metafilter.com/147900/NTP-or-Not-NTP-That-is-the-question>
> <https://www.metafilter.com/147900/NTP-or-Not-NTP-That-is-the-question>)
>
> cheers,
>  Stewart
>
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